Organization: Apple
Preamble: Those Wacky Charts, Week Three
Buckle your seatbelts: we’re stretching this story out to another week. As the discourse around click-farms and Apple chart manipulation continued to swell last week, a producer named John Perotti was contacted over LinkedIn by someone claiming to be a “podcast promoter” on Fiverr, the online freelance services marketplace. Perotti, who manages podcast production at […]
Guest Post: How I Cheated the Charts with Five Bucks, by John Perotti
Earlier this month, I noticed something strange on the iTunes podcast charts: a bunch of shows I’d never seen before were in the top spots, even pushing “The Joe Rogan Experience” out of the top 20. Others noticed, too. A day or so later, everything went back to roughly the way it was before, leaving […]
Follow-ups to the Apple Podcast Chats
Let’s reiterate a few things.
Has the Apple Podcast Charts felt weirder lately?
Here’s a familiar scene: I’m trying to pass the time, so I pull up the Apple Podcast charts to see what the youths are up to. (Ha.) This was my Sunday afternoon, and by that point, I hadn’t looked at the charts in a good few weeks. Part of this has to do with the […]
A Curious Apple Podcast Bug
The episode listings for some podcasts disappeared on the platform this morning. A mystery for the ages!
Follow-up to The Alex Jones Problem
Some larger, complicated questions we didn’t get to.
How do HomePod’s meh sales affect Apple’s place in the podcast ecosystem?
ATLANTA MONSTER NUMBERS. Despite how you may feel about the true-crime podcast collaboration between HowStuffWorks and Tenderfoot — and from what I’ve been seeing, there are abundant feelings flying in all directions — the podcast is putting up considerable numbers for a limited-run series, according to data given to Fast Company. At this point in […]